Example sentences of "[subord] make [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dunne , Chapman 's last attempt to find a successor to Lambert , proved to be past his best , but Drake more than made up for lost time , scoring 42 League goals in 1934–5 , a club record for a single season . |
| 2 | But he more than made up for that night by setting up both Arsenal 's goals with a performance of poise and maturity . |
| 3 | As lovers they were not exactly vibrant , but their voices and Lehar 's music more than made up for that . |
| 4 | Unfortunately for them Palace injuries prevented the other two players from making any more than token contributions to our promotion hopes of the late 1920s and early 1930s , but Tom Crilly , a full-back by profession , more than made up for those disappointments . |
| 5 | The legs and knees take a belt — — you are , after all , suffering most of the strains of downhill skiing and for longer at a stretch — but the distance travelled more than makes up for that . |
| 6 | She published it entirely by herself so it is a bit makeshift but the advice more than makes up for that . |
| 7 | But what sets A.agassizii apart from all other known species , and more than makes up for any deficiency in the dorsal ‘ plumage ’ , is its splendid tail . |
| 8 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that many companies find that the loyalty given to them by disabled people more than makes up for any days that they may have to take off work to undergo treatment ? |
| 9 | This approach may lack an academic master work expounding and defending it , but it more than makes up for this with populist political appeal . |
| 10 | The quality of the sound however more than makes up for this . |
| 11 | As state functions are taken over by private companies , even if made up of ex-civil servants , we will find them dropping out of the public records net . |
| 12 | Had she been seduced into conformity by the excellence of the natural history programmes and then , like other late converts he had known , sat captive to virtually every offering as if making up for lost time ? |
| 13 | as if to make up for this , in the fourth year the number of teacher-days shot up to 1,254 , an amount of time exceeded only by courses devoted to specific professional roles . |
| 14 | But Sunday 's win should erase those ghosts , as well as make up for last year 's defeat to France in the final in Lyon . |
| 15 | This is because the non-singular matrix may be regarded as made up of elementary operations , and these can not change the rank of a non-vanishing minor of order r . |
| 16 | Instead of thinking of society as made up of simple parts , we must think of it as a collection of wholes which together make up one ‘ complex whole ’ . |
| 17 | Her theory ( discussed in Chapter 2 ) postulates that the general population may be conceived as made up of two overlapping distributions ( see Fig. 1 , Chapter 2 ) . |
| 18 | If social life is seen as no longer ideally ordered but as made up of every-day material practices , and painting is part and parcel of social life , then painting should be made up of similar practices . |
| 19 | The circulation pattern can be thought of as made up of several contributions . |
| 20 | Societies are thus seen as made up of three interconnected structures , each of which is seen as a mode of production , transforming raw materials into commodities . |
| 21 | It is quite justifiable therefore to picture polymers as made up from stiff by flexible chains freely sliding among their neighbours and constrained only by cross-links or entanglements — unless , of course , strong lateral forces also exist , such as the hydrogen bonds in polypeptides or polyamides , which tend to hold neighbouring chains together . |
| 22 | Unlined curtains are ideal when made up in easy-care fabrics which can be laundered frequently , making them perfect for kitchens or bathrooms . |
| 23 | They will add a sumptuous air to your curtains , particularly when made up in soft , supple fabrics which drape beautifully . |